Jesse Watter’s conspiracy theory that Taylor Swift was a Pentagon Psy Op
You know a Taylor Swift conspiracy theory is going to be unhinged when a presenter confesses that they don’t have any proof to back it up. On a January 2024 episode of “Jesse Watters Primetime” on FOX, the TV host proposed that Swift was a psychological operation manufactured to influence public opinion.
He was supposedly referring to the time that Swift outed herself as a Democrat in 2018 while encouraging younger generations to register to vote. Just a day after she made the call to action, approximately 65,000 people did so.
Most of us would say that Swift is the massive celebrity that she is due to her hard work, commitment, and talent as a performer and artist. Still, Watters was convinced that Pentagon ties were the reason behind her fame. In the Fox show host’s words, “Well, around four years ago, the Pentagon’s Psychological Operations unit floated, turning Taylor Swift into an asset during a NATO meeting. What kind of asset? A PsyOp for combating online misinformation.”
After making these wild claims, he played a video from the 2019 NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Center of Excellence conference as supposed proof. He claimed that a presenter called Alicia Marie Bargar referenced Swift as a PsyOp. In reality, she just used her as an example of how people with power have the ability to sway public opinion.
